April 1930 in History

Events in History

Apr 2 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda

Event of Interest

Apr 2 Ras Tafari Makonnen becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Apr 4 The Communist Party of Panama is founded
Apr 6 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
Apr 6 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
Apr 10 Thiokol synthetic rubber 1st produced in Yardley, New Jersey
Apr 14 Philip Barry's play "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC
Apr 17 Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
Apr 17 DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene
Apr 18 Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da
Apr 21 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
Apr 22 British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong, Bengal province, British India, 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries killed
Apr 22 US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
Apr 29 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
Apr 29 Telephone connection Britain-Australia goes into service

Birthdays in History

Helmut Kohl (1930-2017)

Apr 3 German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified Germany, 1990-98), born in Ludwigshafen, Weimar Republic

Apr 3 Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida (1971-89) and Governor of Florida (1991-98), born in Lakeland, Florida (d. 1998)
Apr 3 Max Frankel, American journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds), born in Gera, Germany
Apr 8 Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
Apr 8 Julien Van Remoortere [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist), born in Beveren, Belgium (d. 2018)
Apr 8 Mary Moore, English principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford) (d. 2017)
Apr 9 F. Albert Cotton, American chemist, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
Apr 9 Nathaniel Branden, Canadian-American psychotherapist, born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada (d. 2014)
Apr 10 Dolores Huerta, American civil rights activist (co-founded United Farm Workers), born in Dawson, New Mexico
Apr 10 Hugh Morton, Baron Morton of Shuna, Scottish lawyer and judge, born in Mukden, Manchuria, China (d. 1995)
Apr 11 Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1997)
Apr 11 Bill Hefner, American politician, Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, born in Elora, Tennessee (d. 2009)
Apr 11 Clive Exton, British scriptwriter and playwright, born in Islington, London
Apr 11 James Ferman, American director and secretary (British Board of Film Classification), born in New York (d. 2002)
Apr 11 Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
Apr 11 Nicholas F. Brady, American politician and U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1988-93), born in NYC, New York
Apr 12 Louw de Graaf, Dutch Assistant Secretary of Social Affairs (VDA)
Apr 12 Manuel Neri, American sculptor (life-size figurative sculptures), born in Sanger, California
Apr 12 Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, Irish peer and public servant, born in London
Apr 13 Jeremiah Harman, British Judge "the kicking Judge", born in Kensington, London
Apr 14 George Gekas, American politician (Rep-R-PA, 1983-2003), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Apr 15 Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU), born in Lingelihle, Eastern Cape (d. 1994)

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (93 years old)

Apr 15 4th President of Iceland (1980-96) and the world's 1st woman democratically elected president, born in Reykjavík, Iceland

Apr 21 Don Tyson, American businessman, founder of Tyson Foods, born in Olathe, Kansas (d. 2011)
Apr 23 Michael Bowen, British Roman Catholic Archbishop (Southwark), born in Gibraltar
Apr 25 Paul Mazursky, American writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson), born in Brooklyn, New York, (d. 2014)
Apr 28 James Baker, American Secretary of the Treasury (1985-88), Secretary of State (1989-92), born in Houston, Texas
Apr 30 Raoul de Keyser, Flemish painter, born in Deinze, Belgium (d. 2012)

Deaths in History

Apr 1 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
Apr 2 Zewditu, Empress of Ethiopia (1916-30), dies at 53
Apr 4 Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
Apr 16 José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
Apr 17 Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
Apr 19 Charles Scribner II, American magazine and book publisher, dies at 75
Apr 19 Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
Apr 21 Robert Bridges, English poet (Testament of beauty) and British Poet Laureate (1913-30), dies at 85
Apr 22 Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet & novelist (Bondens Søn), dies at 63
Apr 24 Henry Ernest Dudeney, English mathematician and puzzle maker, dies at 73